Katie Urban, reintegration services program manager for Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies, said at Wednesday’s Cambria County Prison Board meeting that the reentry program has a ...

A proposed budget cut is threatening to undo this progress, and if it passes, Americans will be less safe.

Shantè Richardson founded the Prison Wives Society to provide support for women with incarcerated partners. She is committed to addressing the issue of recidivism rates in the criminal justice system.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Rep. Brian Mulder, R-Sioux Falls; Rep. Erin Healy, D-Sioux Falls; Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen; and Rep. Erik Muckey, ...

A new study sought to determine the effects of a college-in-prison program, the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). The study found a large and significant reduction in recidivism rates across racial groups ...

Tens of thousands of federal prisoners will receive tablets for education, rehabilitation, and secure messaging under a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provided their annual ...

Why do so many people return to crime after serving their sentence—even in Norway, with one of the world's most humane prison systems? That is the question Olea Linnea Andersson recently explored in ...

With many former inmates returning to prison within three years, corrections departments are ditching paper files for digital dashboards.

Several states this year have reported lower rates of recidivism, showing that fewer convicted criminals are being re-arrested after leaving prison. But those statistics hardly tell the full story.